Dragonfly: The Luftwaffe's Experimental Triebflugeljager Project (Paperback, illustrated edition)

This is the story of the world's first attempt at perfecting a true, tail-sitting vertical take off and landing (VTOL) interceptor flying machine - Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau's proposed "Triebflegeljager" or thrust wing fighter project of 1944. The Triebflegeljager was not intended to be an air-superiority dogfighter, but a bomber killer rising straight up from its hiding place in the forest or urban area to meet and attack Allied bombers head on. With its mission completed it would return to its hiding place on the forest floor and wait to arise again. The Triebflegeljager would have been a point-defense interceptor intended for the Luftwaffe home defense squadrons and its most important virtue was that it would not need a runway. Highly unusual, then as well as today, the "Triebflegeljager" was an amazing prototype.

General

Imprint:	Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2003
First published:	July 2007
Authors:	David Myhra
Dimensions:	279 x 216 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	120
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7643-1877-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Weapons & equipment > Military vehicles Books > History > General
LSN:	0-7643-1877-2
Barcode:	9780764318771

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